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Always find it hard to motivate myself to get out on the bike. Especially in the winter. So regular ride with a club sounds like a good idea. It mentions in the forum that a good set of lights are need, but with so many available at all sorts of prices, is there any suggestions on what to get.

Hi Aled - welcome to the 'pigs. I know exactly what you mean re motivation!

I've got a set of Hope lights and was fortunate to win a set of ayup lights, they're both great, but they're a few years old now and with a lot of the Chinese lights you see now on ebay at a fraction of the cost, I'd definitely think twice about buying expensive lights. (for the cost saving rather than the quality of the light).

Buy cheap Chinese lights if you want to get a taster of riding off-road at night. They might be unreliable, but they're cheap..

Expensive lights are more reliable (normally), come with better mounts and a far better spread of light. No point having 2000 lumens in a £30 light if it's all concentrated on one small point.

I've got a very old Hope 4 - I'd recommend Hope thoroughly - and a cheaper CandB Seen 1200 lumen light. (Cost about £50ish) I might look at the Alpkit lights - they have a decent looking one at less than £100.

Hi Aled and welcome to the forum. The others have pretty much summed up the difference between lights. I'm running a cheap light and i've been relatively lucky with it but equally, plenty of people have had issues. If you pay more you're more likely to get a more robust light and a UK warranty.

Hopefully see you out on the trails sometime.

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